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Do You Think Everyone Is Autistic?

Daniel

I often find myself come across people claiming "I'm a bit autistic" saying everyone is a bit autistic.

I point out to them so many things they refer to as "autism traits" are not autism traits at all but is just general human behaviours by all people, but when an autistic person does it it gets described negatively.  

Stimming as an example, I see nearly everyone stim, so many people tapping their foot on the floor, some picking their nails, some just twirling hair etc. because they do something an autistic person does they assume they're a bit autistic. 

When I tell them doing something labelled "autism trait" doesn't make them a bit autistic, that people are either autistic or not, I back it up asking "I sometimes say a metaphor, does that mean I'm a bit neurotypical?" I point out to them autism is a neurodevelopmental condition. 

I say "people with bipolar have mood swings, I hear most people have mood swings, so does everyone have a bit of bipolar disorder?" 

They still go claiming everyone's a bit autistic. Do you agree with the people who say everyone's a bit autistic?

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  • in reply to aidie

    Just like so much behaviour of autistic people is described as weird, the same can be said about anyone's behaviour since weird is just an opinion.

    They provide therapies for so many behaviours when they perform those same behaviours, so if we require therapy for behaviours so do NTs. 

    Claiming truth is so important and hiding the truth at the same time is hypocrisy, but that seems to be part of their sense of social communication.

    NTs have the tendency to avoid people with perceived differences who they don't understand instead of learn to understand them, fear.

    NTs tend to be wasteful with money more concerned about staying in fashion, what other people think about their appearance, they will spend as much as £60 on one shirt that they're hardly ever going to wear.

    Just like so much behaviour by autistic people is criticized, the behaviour of NTs can be criticized equally.